Journal article
The Effects of a Nutrition Media Literacy Intervention on Parents' and Youths' Communication about Food
Journal of health communication, Vol.23(2), pp.190-199
01/01/2018
PMID: 29338585
Abstract
Interventions addressing links between media exposure and obesity risk for school-age youth have not explicitly addressed the role of family communication about media. Youths' influence attempts on parents to purchase advertised foods can create conflict and negatively affect parental food choices. This study tested whether a family-based media literacy curriculum improves parents' media management skills and decreases youths' susceptibility to appealing but unrealistic food marketing. A matched-group pretest/posttest field experiment of parent-youth dyads with control group (N = 100 dyads, youth M = 11 years of age) tested the six-session curriculum. Hypotheses were analyzed using a Bayesian structural equation model. The curriculum increased parents' active negative mediation to foster youths' critical thinking about food marketing, b* = 0.35, 95% CCI [0.17, 0.50], increased parent Efficacy for making healthy dietary changes for their families, b* = 0.59, 95% CCI [0.41, 0.75], and fostered family discussion about nutrition labels (total effect = 0.22). Additionally, cumulative influences of Perceived Desirability and Wishful Identification on youths' requests for marketed foods were reduced (total effect = 0.04). Media literacy education can empower parents and improve youths' critical thinking to reduce effects of food marketing on families and improve use of media to obtain nutrition information.
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- Title
- The Effects of a Nutrition Media Literacy Intervention on Parents' and Youths' Communication about Food
- Creators
- Erica Weintraub Austin - Washington State University, Strategic Communication, Department ofBruce W. Austin - Washington State University, Department of Kinesiology and Educational PsychologyBrian F. French - Washington State University, Department of Kinesiology and Educational PsychologyMarilyn A. Cohen - Northwest Center for Excellence in Media Literacy, College of Education, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Publication Details
- Journal of health communication, Vol.23(2), pp.190-199
- Academic Unit
- Strategic Communication, Department of
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Grant note
- 2012 -68001-19618 / National Institute of Food and Agriculture (10.13039/100005825)
- Identifiers
- 99901130241001842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article